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nomentantum.bsky.social @nomentantum.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“Men found that his absorbing egotism was deadly to all other men.” Emerson on Napoleon

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nomentantum.bsky.social @nomentantum.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Shelf cloud near Tucson, mid-September. A good amount of rain ensued over several hours.

A gray shelf-like cloud with a sheet of rain over a desert landscape.

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nomentantum.bsky.social @nomentantum.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

More than half a century either a steakhouse, seafood, or sushi. Fenced off now against transients and thieves, windows dark and derelict. It is night, I am still 17 and standing behind the building waiting for my ride. what should I feed the vampires of memory silver steaks #haiku

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nomentantum.bsky.social @nomentantum.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Dusk in Arizona. Emerson said, if I remember right, that no one owns the landscape.

Small patch of desert in Arizona at dusk under a shield of peach-colored clouds.

Red birds of paradise and ocotillos at dusk.

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nomentantum.bsky.social @nomentantum.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

now fully mature I eat my own yesterdays an ouroboros

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nomentantum.bsky.social @nomentantum.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I often saw animals that were not. A snake! I tell my gym teacher. How could I? A lie! He smiles. Assembly before the school, blue heavens, flagpole clanks in the wind. Off to Vietnam. Name on a black wall. my seventh decade the path we wore through the woods Is now overgrown #haibun

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nomentantum.bsky.social @nomentantum.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

This is Picacho Peak in Picacho, AZ. Picacho is Spanish for peak. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like.

A desert peak against a blue sky in Picacho, AZ.

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nomentantum.bsky.social @nomentantum.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

“If this civilization of ours is to be saved it can only be saved by a change in heart of the whole population of the globe. Neither improvements in machines nor the jugglings of economists can do it. To have a living civilization we must have civilized hearts.” Ford Madox Ford #reading

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nomentantum.bsky.social @nomentantum.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

will it rain or not they talk in percentages birds speckle a cloud #haiku

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nomentantum.bsky.social @nomentantum.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

getting old I look in the mirror blue mountain #haiku

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nomentantum.bsky.social @nomentantum.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

When I go through my TL these days, some lines from Housman come to mind. Waking up after a bender, he says “The world, it was the old world yet, And I was I, my things were wet, And nothing else remained to do But begin the game anew.” Maybe I should follow fewer political accounts. #poetry

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nomentantum.bsky.social @nomentantum.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

(1/x) There is a poem by Swinburne the first line of which is, “Out of the golden remote wild west where the sea without shore is…” He was adapting to English the dactylic hexameter, the meter of Greek and Latin epic verse. I think that particular line is beautiful, #poetry #classics

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nomentantum.bsky.social @nomentantum.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

I know that many people are feeling uncertainty about the future because of the war with Iran. People wonder should they buy an EV, are mortgage rates going to rise, what does this mean for investments in the UAE. It’s hard to predict, but these are some recent indicators : (1/x)

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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

This drawing of an approaching storm (around 1913) shows Paul Henry's consumate skill with charcoal, the location is likely to be the village of Dugort on the island of Achill on the west coast of Ireland.

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jinxiemae in the desert @jinxiemae.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

I stepped out to get a quick photo of the new snow on the mountain with my phone. Then I realized, THAT’S A RAPTOR ON A SAGUARO on the left! 😅 Grabbed my camera and got these shots of this gorgeous Red-tailed hawk. Southeastern Arizona. #birds #hawks #arizonabirds #raptors

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nomentantum.bsky.social @nomentantum.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

I imagined the apocalypse Differently I did not know I would be peeled Slowly Like an onion #poetry

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nomentantum.bsky.social @nomentantum.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Somewhere Where all the thoughts fizzle Out And the red hills sizzle Under two suns Let’s meet It will be too late For coffee #poetry

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nomentantum.bsky.social @nomentantum.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

The worldly hopes men set their hearts upon Turn ashes—or they prosper, and anon, Like snow upon the desert’s dusty face, Lighting a little hour or two, are gone. (Omar Khayyam, according to FitzGerald) #poetry

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Thinking and talking with #coffee, drawn by Rembrandt de Rijn, c. 1656-61 (British Museum)

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Pirjo Sundqvist @pirjosundqvist.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

The first snowfall of the season, blossom sized flakes falling languidly and melting on the ground, a premature snow fall delicate as lace, rapidly melting. ❄️ ― Joyce carol Oates The year started with the snowfall it brings welcome light to this darkest time of the year. 🤍 #Januarty2026 #fresh

Heavy snowfall turns the landscape gray and white, you can barely see the neighboring house from behind the yard trees, and the forest in the background is just a gray hint.

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ND John @johnwmich.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

An eagle's nest, watching over an abandoned homestead. 12/25/25. #photography

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nomentantum.bsky.social @nomentantum.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Alexandria I scaled the cliff Of marble steps As sunlight leapt Like flying fish From off the water. I marveled there In noon’s bright glare At the mirror’s glitter On lofty Pharos. I was fearful even When I saw up in heaven The image of Zeus. #poetry @nomentantum

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nomentantum.bsky.social @nomentantum.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

It’s been more than 10 years since I’ve read Moby Dick. My memory of it has holes, but I feel there must be some scene where Ishmael sees with complete clarity that Ahab is in fact barking mad, and he looks at his shipmates, laughs nervously, and says, “We’re all doomed, aren’t we?” #literature

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nomentantum.bsky.social @nomentantum.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Speaking of #cats . A couple of months ago I was standing in my yard taking a picture of a hummingbird. A tiny ant crawls up my leg and bites me on the calf. Ouch. I go into the house and am showing the picture to my wife when the cat walks up and licks me on that exact spot where I was bitten. 1/

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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

By the time James Hamilton Hay painted 'The Falling Star,' (1909) many European artists had popularised the idea a painting could function as a visual poem, something to be felt rather than read literally - a falling star was a common device in Victorian and Edwardian art.

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Adam De Ville ARBSA. Artist @adeville.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Once upon a Beer Cart Lane #canterbury #art #travel #design

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nomentantum.bsky.social @nomentantum.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

This is one of the older saguaros I’ve seen in my area. Older than my father, older than my grandfather, older than his father and his father. #Arizona #azwx

Old saguaro cactus against an azure sky with white cirrus clouds

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nomentantum.bsky.social @nomentantum.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

I awaken at night My tongue in my mouth A dead seahorse #poetry

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Getty @gettymuseum.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

From the streets of Mexico City to the Argentine pampas, discover six Latin-American photographers this #HispanicHeritageMonth. www.getty.edu/news/latin-a...

A black and white photograph of two small children walking in a dirt parking lot. The two boys are walking with their arms around each other's shoulders.

Black and white photo of 4 people walking down a village road away from the camera. The figure in the center has a small white casket strapped to their back

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nomentantum.bsky.social @nomentantum.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Even among birds There are those who Leave on errands, never To return. The timbre of calls For the missing Is different, insistent. #smallpoemsunday

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nomentantum.bsky.social @nomentantum.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Went out today in the 100-degree late August heat here in southern Arizona to have a look around and see whom I could find: a great egret, a pacific-slope flycatcher (migrating through), a broad-billed hummingbird, and an American avocet. #birds

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nomentantum.bsky.social @nomentantum.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

This is a subadult Rufous Hummingbird. They aren’t resident here in southern Arizona but appear during the fall migration as they make their way from Canada and the PNW to winter in Mexico. This one is perched in a desert willow, an indigenous catalpa with purple flowers. #birds #poetry

Rufous Hummingbird perched in a desert willow

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Forgotten Poets @forgottenpoets.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

From ‘Wind Over Romsdal’ (1982) —Knut Odegard (tr. George Johnston) #poetry #poem #booksky

Afterwards

I get up
From the cafe table
And go out through the swinging doors
Absorbed

And see outside everything is still

—suddenly: a house that stares
From wide open windows
A dog that barks
Far off
—Good god!

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nomentantum.bsky.social @nomentantum.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

When I was young I was indifferent to flowers. Then in my 50s a blue bergamot blossom in my overgrown yard opened the azure gates, and I’ve loved them ever since. The flowers in front of the ocotillo are Caesalpinia Pulcherrima, a common ornamental here in Arizona, native to the Caribbean. #flowers

A garden in Arizona with yellow and orange flowers in front of an ocotillo.

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Litbowl @litbowl.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

From Danusha Laméris's book, Bonfire Opera: bit.ly/bonfireoperaBK #poem #books #writing

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

A Courtyard in Delft at Evening: a Woman spinning Pieter de Hooch, 1657. (Royal Collection Trust, HM CIII)

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nomentantum.bsky.social @nomentantum.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Bullock’s Oriole, southeastern Arizona, May 7 #birds

Bullock’s Oriole. Orange with black markings

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jinxiemae in the desert @jinxiemae.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

This Black-throated Gray Warbler in the palo verde behind the backyard is a lifer for hubby and me. And a total cutie pie. #birds #arizona #warblers

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phillip crymble @phillipcrymble.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Joshua Clover, RIP

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DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Earth Day Poetry 2: Mary Oliver again, in"I Looked Up," linking the stunning, exciting, mutual spotting of a red tailed hawk as touching something larger in the universe.

I Looked Up

I looked up and there it was
among the green branches of the pitchpines –

thick bird,
a ruffle of fire trailing over the shoulders and down the back –

color of copper, iron, bronze –
lighting up the dark branches of the pine.

What misery to be afraid of death.
What wretchedness, to believe only in what can be proven.

When I made a little sound
it looked at me, then it looked past me.

Then it rose, the wings enormous and opulent,
and, as I said, wreathed in fire.

– Mary Oliver

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nomentantum.bsky.social @nomentantum.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

FAFO on the plains of Troy (a thread) 1/ I’ve been reading the Iliad, and one thing I’ve noticed is that there’s lots of fucking around, lots of finding out. Pandaros, who came from Lycia as a Trojan ally, is a case in point. #classics #Homer

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PickledMonkey @pickledmonkey.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

The Old North Church, Boston, Massachusetts. Where 250 years ago tomorrow the lantern signals were given from the tower to alert the colonists if the British were coming by land or sea. The first step in fighting an authoritarian king. #photography #art #monotone #monochrome #OldNorthChurch #Boston

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Tanuki.no.mori @tanukinomori.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Nanzenji Temple with cherry blossoms 🌸🌸 📸 04/03/2025 📍Sakyo Ward, Kyoto City #photography #japan #temple #kyoto #cherryblossom

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Tanuki.no.mori @tanukinomori.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Sakura on the Philosopher's Path🌸 📸 04/03/2025 📍Sakyo Ward, Kyoto City #photography #kyoto #cherryblossom #flowers #landscape

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